China is actually spending some of that 454 Billion Green Energy stimulus money……..will APWR ever win any of this new money ???? My gut says YES………..

China breaks ground at $17.6bn ‘mega’ wind farm

China kicked off construction at the first of seven planned ‘mega’ wind farms that will top 10 gigawatts (GW) each, even as officials acknowledged the country’s wind ambitions are being undermined by its threadbare grid infrastructure.

The commencement of work at the first mega project, sited in Gansu province in northern China, illustrates the future face of wind-power in China, according to Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration.

Zhang nevertheless points to several critical problems dogging the development of the sector, including distribution imbalances between its remote wind-rich regions and its energy-hungry population centres; the long wait developers face to connect new wind projects to the electricity grid; and state policies that favour the construction of small, inefficient wind farms.

But the seven mega wind farms planned by the National Energy Administration are meant to turn the tide on those issues, maximising the efficiency of the country’s wind programme through large-scale construction and transmission projects.

The Gansu project will have installed capacity of 3.8GW by the end of 2010, and 12.7GW by 2015, according to state media. By 2020 it will reach its full size of 20GW – compared to the 22.5GW of output produced by the Three Gorges dam.

The Gansu wind farm will be built in two phases near the city of Jiuquan for an estimated 120bn yuan ($17.6bn). Construction of the first phase will create 5,000 jobs and is being pursued by 20 wind developers – including six foreign investors.

China has committed itself to producing 3% of its total energy from non-hydro renewable sources by 2020. China finished 2008 with 12.2GW of installed wind capacity, putting it behind only the US, Germany and Spain